Albert graduated as an agricultural economist from Wageningen University (WUR) and has over 20 years of experience in agricultural finance in different departments in Rabobank and Rabo Foundation. He has worked throughout Agri chains with global F&A players as well as farmers, MFI’s and farmer organizations with a strong role for impact finance.

In the last 4 years Albert was Innovation Lead in Rabo Foundation with a focus on digital innovations in smallholder finance to improve outreach and services to farmers and reduce the costs of lending. This included the digitisation of supply chains, geodata and the analytical tools needed to translate this into new financial products and services.

Albert recently joined Rabo Partnerships to oversee the combined propositions of Rabobank and key partners towards digital financial solutions for smallholder agri chains. This includes the carbon sequestration platform Acorn and related needs for climate finance.